Substation · the United Kingdom

Ravenhead G1A1 / St Helens GT2B / Windle GT1 Substation

Name: Ravenhead G1A1 / St Helens GT2B / Windle GT1
Address: GB

Ravenhead G1A1 / St Helens GT2B / Windle GT1 Substation is a 132 kV bulk supply point in the United Kingdom, with 26.7 MVA of demand headroom and 22.6 MVA of generation headroom, operated by SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area).

53.4677, -2.7401 on OpenStreetMap

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Name in the source	RAVENHEAD G1A1 / ST HELENS GT2B / WINDLE GT1	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Location	United Kingdom	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Grid operator	SP Manweb plc (SP Energy Networks, North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire licence area)	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Demand headroom	26.7 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Generation headroom	22.6 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Firm capacity	69.1 MVA	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Level	Bulk supply point (BSP)	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Voltage	132 kV (levels 132, 33 kV)	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Coordinates	53.4677, -2.7401	SP Energy Networks open data portal · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026

Research on this substation and the land around it.Its headroom, connection queue and congestion, who owns the land around it, and an introduction to those owners.

Request research

Nearby

Within 50 km of this substation: 511 grid connections (311 operating, 3,271 MW), 414 power plants (124 operating, 4,916 MW), 17 data centers, 3 gas storage facilities and 2 transmission lines, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 9, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
Cowley Hill grid connection	Grid connection	10 MW	Operating	0.2 km
College Street - Solar Panels	Power plant	1.19 MW	Permitted	0.9 km
Lock Street Energy from Waste Plant	Power plant	10.6 MW	Cancelled	1.3 km
Watson Street grid connection	Grid connection	10 MW	Operating	2.3 km
Biffa Electricity Generating Compound, Burtonhead Road - Battery Storage	Power plant	1 MW	Cancelled	2.3 km
Alexandra Park grid connection	Grid connection	15 MW	Operating	2.3 km
Data center, England (OSM way 1551100328)	Data center	—	—	6.7 km
Iron Mountain	Data center	—	—	9.4 km
Verizon Warrington	Data center	—	—	11 km

Grid operator and place

Candidate sites around this substation

3 sites of land near Ravenhead G1A1 / St Helens GT2B / Windle GT1 have it as nearest substation. Each site page gives its area, its distance to the substation and its site score; owners are on request.

32 ha brownfield site at Land at Cowley Street and Albert Street, Moss Bank, WA10 1TY, St. Helens0.67 km · score 55
4.56 ha brownfield site at Former Pilkington's Site, City Road, Moss Bank, St. Helens0.1 km · score 55
2.72 ha brownfield site at Polar Ford, City Road, Windle, St. Helens0.29 km · score 52

Other substations in the United Kingdom

All 4347 substations in the United Kingdom

Data on this page

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD), Open Government Licence v3.0.
SP Energy Networks, via Northern Powergrid Open Data. SP Energy Networks open data portal, CC BY 4.0.